A full-on action movie

Rating: 8/10 (29 December 2005)

Coming into this movie, one has to realize that this is not going to be a huge psychological film, playing on characters' emotions to further the story, and it's not a big story driven thing. It's a Michael Bay production. Yeah, it's got massive explosions. It's got car chase sequences. It's an action movie. It's not going to teach anyone anything from it, but it is going to thoroughly impress after it's over.
Usually, the thing missing from most action movies is a plot. One thing that I was impressed by was how much story this movie had and how well all the action fit into the story, making a somewhat cohesive film out of it. I assume that some of that is simply playing to my love of science-fiction, but I still remembered the story after I left the movie theatre. There are some very big holes in it, sure, and these glaring omissions are a huge detriment, but nothing that I couldn't overlook in favor of the huge explosions covering them up.
All in all, I was very entertained by this movie. Not on a highly intellectual level, mind you, but still very entertained. The escape scene was one of the best action scenes of all, in my opinion. An amazing action movie. BOOM! Awesome.